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Risk Management (June) | 2012

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Seven Clinical Pearls for Suicide Risk Assessment

June 1, 2012

Assessing a patient’s risk of suicide is one of the most common, yet challenging, exercises for the psychiatrist. Read More

Managing the Risk of Prescription Drug Abuse

June 1, 2012

Burns Woodward, MD

We’ve all been taught not to prescribe addictive drugs to patients who will abuse them, but in the real world it is not always easy to tell who those patients are or to manage the resulting problems. Read More

How to Reduce Risk for You and Your Patients

June 1, 2012

Paul S. Appelbaum, MD

What are some ways clinicians can minimize the risks to patients and their own liability in psychiatric practice? Dr. Paul Appelbaum explores risk management in clinical practice in this month’s Q&A. Read More

Patient Preference Not a Good Predictor of Treatment Response

June 1, 2012

Glen Spielmans, PhD

Do patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) respond better when psychiatrists offer the type of treatment—medication or psychotherapy—that the patient prefers? Read More

Text Messaging Effective for Appointment Reminders

June 1, 2012

Glen Spielmans, PhD

No one seems to be without a cell phone these days, so it only makes sense that we should start using these devices to carry out tasks that we used to do in a more “old-fashioned” way. Read More